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Early accessCalc pack for UK houses

Building Control calcs for UK houses, drafted for you to check

From a single knock-through to the whole house: loads, steel, padstones, lintels, masonry, timber and foundations, ready for your review and sign-off. Being built now.

For structural engineers and technologists · Nothing to pay now

A preview run on our example house. The video has no sound.

What the video shows
  1. The architect's drawings for the example house, four A3 sheets.
  2. The house modelled storey by storey from the plans.
  3. The characteristic line load on every wall, in kN/m.
  4. SB1 over the rear opening as two beams, one under each leaf: a 203×133×25 UB at 0.86 and a 254×146×31 UB at 0.82.
  5. Wind on the house for the stability checks.
  6. A strip footing under its line load.
  7. The pack itself, from the cover sheet through the calc sheets, then a section being moved and a page added.

Sample packs: the whole house, or one job

From our example house, marked draft. Download one and check it the way you would any calcs.

The whole house

Loads, stability, steel, padstones, lintels, masonry, timber and foundations for a 3-bed detached house.

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PDF · 54 sheets · 1.4 MB

One job: a steel beam opening

Loads, two UBs (one under each leaf) and four padstones.

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PDF · 7 sheets · 340 KB

One job: lintels

Lintel schedule, generic tables and a worked lintel.

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PDF · 3 sheets · 250 KB

Sample pack cover sheet: 61 elements designed, 130 checks run, 128 pass, 2 supplier designs to review, with a blank checked-by field(opens full size in a new tab)
Cover sheetSheet i
The whole house: 61 elements, 130 checks. Checked-by left blank for you.
Sample beam sheet for SB1b, a 254x146x31 UB carrying the inner leaf, with its loading table and bending moment diagram(opens full size in a new tab)
Beam SB1bSheet 23
Every load listed with where it comes from. 254×146×31 UB.
Sample padstone sheet: the bare bearing fails at 1.44, a 440x215x100 precast padstone passes at 0.67(opens full size in a new tab)
Padstone PS3Sheet 25
Bare block fails at 1.44. A 440×215×100 padstone passes at 0.67.
Sample lintel sheet for L2 over a 2024 mm front window, with the 60 degree load triangle and the heavy duty cavity lintel check(opens full size in a new tab)
Lintel L2Sheet 29
Load triangle over a 2.0 m window. Generic type, heavy duty.

  • Quick to check

    Every load and value shows where it came from: an input, another sheet or a clause.

  • You check it and sign it

    Every sheet is marked draft. The checked-by box is left for you.

  • One beam or the whole house

    UK houses in England and Wales, to the Eurocodes and Approved Document A.

Pricing

Pay per job, or once a year. Nothing to pay until you start using it.

  • Per job

    £25 a job

    A knock-through, extension or loft: loads, beams, padstones and lintels.

  • Unlimited

    £249 a year

    Every pack, from one beam to a whole new house, for one engineer.

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It's being built now. Join the list and you'll be among the first to use it. Nothing to pay now.

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For structural engineers and technologists. Two minutes, nothing to pay.

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Questions

Questions

You do, under your own name. The software prepares a draft. It never signs and never takes on responsibility for the design.

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UK houses up to two storeys, from a single knock-through, chimney breast removal or extension to the full pack for a whole house: loads, stability, steel, padstones, lintels, masonry, timber and foundations.

We can put you in touch with a chartered engineer who'll quote a fixed price. Use the request form on our free steel beam calculator page.

No. Joining is free and doesn't commit you to anything. You pay once you start using it.